Re: any robots/search-engines which index links?

Carlos Baquero (cbm@di.uminho.pt)
Wed, 8 May 1996 18:06:27 +0000

> Has anyone written a robot which maintains a cross-reference of which pages
> link to which other ones? Better yet, are there any search engines which
> will allow searches by link other than AltaVista?

There is a tool named Web Core that displays the reverse links for a
given url.

More that just showing urls, this tool allows navigation through
backward and forward urls by selecting the displayed items.

This approach is currently being shown as a Poster presentation in
the 5th WWW conference. Details can be seen in
http://www.di.uminho.pt/~cbm/htdoc/Overview.html
or in the Proceedings for those who are in Paris :)

There is a small world database (1.6 million known urls) ,
gathered in november, at
http://www.di.uminho.pt/wc

We would appreciate any feedback on the usefullness of such
a system and if any major search engine is willing to provide that,
as all the needed data is already present.

Regards,

Carlos Baquero
cbm@di.uminho.pt